The completion of the statement 'You can tell you're from Bisbee
When'
reveals the core of the community.
If you can think of any of these statements please mail them to us.

A note from the editor. I have received most of these statements from
readers by e-mail.
If you would like to have your name and/or e-mail address posted below the comment
please let me know. I have numbered them from the bottom to the top so that we can keep
count.Not everything is funny (I make no judgement calls, but I have been
pickie lately
perhaps it's a mood).

You can remember the mines working six days a week and
nothing in Tucson was open on Sunday except restaurants. The PD store had it made.

Gene Freed

79. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you have floor burns on your nose from pushing the peanut across the gym
floor during freshman orientation.

Cal Martinez

78. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You
remember getting out of the Lyric and waiting for our parents to pick us up.We would scare each other with scary stories about
the mortuary next door.

You remember riding the
bus from Warren to Bisbee to go shopping or go to the show.

You remember riding by
bike from the top of the Warren Terraces down hill to GreenwaySchool and then having to ride home but still
having to push - My bike the last part of the encline.

You remember playing
tricks at Halloween and Getting rotten eggs from Benderaks Store as along as we
promised not to throw them at his store.

You remember going to
the Elks Picnic every year and getting drunk on the beer all the adults left sitting
around.

You remember partying up
on the Divide and then one of the guys driving down while the girls were screeming they
were scared.Not something I would of ever
wanted my kids to do.

You remember hiding
someone in the trunk to get into the Drive In.

You remember sitting up
in the balcony in the Lyric and making out.

Pat Johnston Class of 1967

77. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

No matter where your travels may take
you...there is no sky as blue as the sky in Bisbee....heck...how do you think "Bisbee
Blue" got it's color?

Rueben Nunez

76. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.......

You remember the houses from Jiggerville and Upper
Lowell being moved on trucks to Briggs, Saginaw and Dogpatch (in Bakerville).

You remember the sign over the door at the Arctic Circle, "There's no
place anywhere near this place that's anything like this place, so this must be the
place!"

You remember getting a chocolate éclair at Balich's Bakery after seeing a
matinee at Lowell Theater.

You remember the spectacular Christmas displays Opie Rundle Burgess created
every year for her yard on Oliver Circle!

You remember Ola Ratteree being the best soda jerk in town at Warren Rexall
Drug.

You remember Lee and Bill Benderach having a seedy grocery store with a
truly amazing inventory of booze!

You remember when Citation Avenue got its name and who named it!
(Doonie Ducote, where are you now?) Was that the first time we ever saw spray paint used
for graffiti?

Jay (Jeanette Busk) Lane, '57

75. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

People talk about Douglas and you start telling your senior class
Bisbee-Douglas game story.

No matter where you are on the 4th of July, you would rather be in Old
Bisbee or on the Vista.

Your Coach calls you by your mothers first name because he coached you and
your Mom and just cant seem to tell the two of you apart.

You laugh every time you see bike racers and think about all of those who
ate it trying to race in Bisbee.

You remember Phil's field trips.

You tell people that you are from Bisbee and then they laugh and ask what
type of car you drive.

A man, a dog, a cat and a mouse will never be the same.

No matter where you've been you cant seem to find a place that had
burgers like the Arctic circle.

You know what the iron man looks like with cloths.

You tell your grandfather you go to St. Elmos and he hugs you and wipes a
tear from his eye because to him it was a right of passage.

haha.

Raymie Roxanne

74. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

Your car breaks down or dies in your parking lot and
you can push it, get it to "uh coasting" and get it to the mechanic in
approximately 2 minutes. Brophy to Bisbee Bug.

Your parents are the only ones in old bisbee that have
11 parking spaces because your dad, hand picked the mountain behind the house and knows
exactly how many truck loads he disposed of. Incidently, Mrs. Moore would be
grateful that where her house was now has some of that fill as well as a house on
Brophy that has a driveway.

you had a tooth ache while attending college in Phoenix
and the dentist you went to for service aunt was from Bisbee. Her name.
Minnie Kelly BROPHY!

You remember paying for lunch at Ocies
Café in Tombstone Canyon with
Franklin half dollar and getting change back

You remember getting vaccinated for polio at
the health department across
from the Court house

You remember watching Walt Disney True
Life Adventures during recess on
rainy days at Lincoln School

You remember chemistry class with Fuzzy
Warren and watching him
jump every time there was a blast at a nearby construction site and he would
say, Damned Viet Cong!.

You know ALL the applications of the
grease used to lubricate the motors
at the Campbell, the Dallas and the Cole. (It took me 3 days to clean that
stuff off!)

You remember breaking you wrist on the
3100 level at the Campbell and
getting chewed out by the boss, the foreman and the safety man for breaking
a safety rule

David Wright  Bisbee High Class of 1967

70. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

...you remember KSUN Sun Country radio! I was news
director in 1977-78 and lived in the White House Apartments on Congdon in
Warren. Our broadcasts included the Grand Opening of the Queen Mine Tour in 1978.
I'd like to hear from anyone who remembers that time and the station.

you set your
clock by the time of the daily blast and you start dinner because you know your men
will be home soon.

Cheryl Brands - I grew up on the TOP
with Charlie and Viola Suffield

65. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM
BISBEE WHEN.....

you
can claim you were born in space.
(my Copper Queen Hospital is now in the middle
of The Pit.

Betty Maffeo Watson

66. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you
crave a pizza topped with sour cream and red devil from
THE PIZZA HOUSE.

agomez class of '89

67. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you
remember 1987, the new puma fight song eye of the tiger,
also, sitting in class when were not gonna take it was played over the
BHS p.a speakers,
and the graduation was moved from the ball park to the BHS AUDITORIUM

Laurlyn

The Lighter Hill side:

62. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM
BISBEE WHEN.....

when elmo
isnt just a character from sesame street

referring to the bar of course

Catherine Ray

58. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You know you're from Bisbee if you remember the Spanish Club picnic at Ullrich
Ranch in Palominas. And if you remember Mr. Madrid.

Edward L. Madrid

45. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you have survived skateboarding down Younglbood Hill without having
to replace your pants!

* Own a pellet gun
* Love lizards
* love looking at the stars
* you watch the sunset and wish you were watching bisbee's sunset..
theres no other sunset quite like Bisbees.
* you still attend rock & mineral shows
* you know what a ringtail, puma, mountian lion, horned toad and
javalina
are.
* you own alot of purses from the Singletree
* can climb up& down steps faster than a city person
* Love trendy yet vintage clothes and knick nacks (thanks to vavoom)
* You actually miss dancing with all the little stinky people at the earwig
factory (no offense)
*You miss all that non stop gossip, it's so entertaining!
* You miss all those great parties.. the best parties usually end the next
day!
* you can slam a shot faster than most city people (thanks to A.P)
* you enjoy walking downtown but hate walking back up
* you get time warped in Safeway
* you remember the bread store up the canyon, $1.00 for a bad of candy.
(Martha Romero Miller)
* your feet are wide from walking around barefoot
* your grandpa was in the movie " voilent saturday" (Joe F.
Romero)
*everyone you meet outside of bisbee says you're a very strange character
* you meet someone from Bisbee & you feel as if they're family
* you try to sweet talk the bouncer at st. elmos by naming all your
relatives, but he still never lets you in.
*No other place in this world can combine all the cute qualities
Bisbee has. : )

You could count on hearing shotgun
pellets fall on your roof at midnight on any given January 1.

You actually remember Mississippi Bill and his ramshackle gas station before it was
swallowed by the ever-expanding Lavender Pit.

You tried to dress up your street address when you signed in for the first day of band
practice at Horace Mann, only to have Mr. Quill look up with his customary irritated scowl
and ask: "Higgins AVENUE? Where the HELL is that? Oh... oh... you mean Higgins
HILL!!!"

You have met people who claim to know the exact location of Pomerene.

Getting served instantly with a brew and wondering why the hell they ever called it the
Lowell WAITING ROOM!!!

Seeing the old boys on the iron benches between the Phelps Dodge offices and the old
Copper Queen Hospital, and remembering Ed Wallace (owner of Wallace's Smoke Shop)
tell you stories about the Deportation.

You can't remember anyone who knew why Paul Spur EVER existed.

Marveling at the acute engineering skill required to put the drainage pipe under the
parking lot behind the Cochise County Courthouse Annex/Health Clinic so that the big
summer rains could dump hundreds of pounds of mud, torn-up vegetation and dead animals in
front of St. Pat's church.

The bittersweet smell in the air after those rainstorms. There is nothing like it on
earth. -

- when you would drive back and forth from the "Pizza House" to "Vista
Park' looking for girls.

- when you remember beating sierra vistas 8th grade football team !

- when you know what a "3 o clock whistle" is

- when you make fun of all the drivers in the big city that don't know how to drive in the
rain on a straight flat road!

-when you miss orange and purple dirt

Tracy Bishop

40. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

AND IN THE BAND BECAUSE YOU
START TO ITCH AND SWEAT EVERTIME YOU SEE SOMETHING WOOL..... THIS HELPS US TO REMEMBER THE
MOST IMPORTANT FOURTH OF JULY PARADE OF OUR LIVES. MR. WOODMANSEE LET THE BAND MARCH FROM
THE IRON MAN ALL THE WAY THROUGH LOWELL.

* Spanish Club picnics at Bill Ulrich's--the best fun ever
* Going to Agua Prieta after the Prom--"Evening in Paris"
* Elks' Club swimming and dances in the summer.
* Freshman initiation at BHS! Where's the lipstick?
* Getting caught on the "D" trying to make it into a "B" with
lime.
* The stores: Ben Franklin's, Sprouse Reitz, Woolworth's, Irma Courteo's,
Ribic's, Ortega's, The White House Cafe, the little grocery store in South Bisbee, the
hamburger place in Don Luis, the Arctic Circle.
* South Bisbee--the dumps, Tin Town. 'Nuff said.

Gee, I loved it all so much why am I living in Globe????
Sherry (Sylvester) Casillas

1. Walking up the high cement arches over the sidewalks in old Bisbee on
the way to Lincoln School.
2. Climbing 86 steops across from Castle Rock to get back home from the Lyric Theater
where we got in for a dime (or a can of food).
3. Riding bikes all over Bakerville, playing neighborhood games of kick-the-can, rolling
down steep hills in cardboard boxes we got behind Whitehead's.
4. Getting cherry slushes after school at the Dairy Bar.
5. Wes and his bike with the flapping cards. "Wes for Sheriff."
6. The scary Grit salesman who always growled, "Wanna-buya-Grit?"
7. Dramatic summer storms, puddle play afterwards, occasional hail storms.
8. Miss Bendixen, Coach Taylor, Mr. Peterson (the paddler of the 7th grade), Mr.
Mosely, Miss Brooks (she whistled), at Lowell School.
9. Practicing Pom routines at Vista Park hoping that boys would drive by and visit.
10. The Fort Apache Drive-In Theater: sneaking in, getting caught.
11. At BHS: Miss Riggins and the Copper Chronicle, Mr. Madrid, Mr. Payne, Mr.
Creviston, and my first crush, Mr. Van Metre.
12. Mike Kasun setting a fire in the back of Mr. Cole's U. S. History class.

28. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

the only places to hang out were, the Pizza house, and the Vist Park.
The only party places were The Flats,and the rifle range.
Lunch time in High School included a visit to the vista park with everyone else.

your's and your friend's sleds,
to ride down the mountain with,
when there is enough snow,
is the last plastic wading pool ace hardware had on display.

you keep a scrap
book of Police Beat articles from the Bisbee Review because the activities
in them contain sentimental value.

even when you are in Phoenix or Tucson you still have the urge to roll down your window
and bark at pedestrians.

Bethany BHS '01

21. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

your new car is only ten years old.

g mulloy

20. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

Residents who have lived in Bisbee
only a short time call you a newcomer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

you celebrate when you leave and then can't wait to come back home.

Playing tennis with Fred Corrin's
summer tennis program,

Swimming at the country club and buying $.10
tacos at the Monterey and "smuggling" them back to the country club

a big night out was cruisin the vista
and going around the traffic circle the number of our class years.........

Eating Greasburgers to hide the smell of Pot in
our cars

You have to drive out to toward Douglas to
pick up KOMA late at night to hear rock and roll

bill hicks 71

09. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you remember all the people driving
down to Bisbee Junction every night to watch the trains come in.

Going into the little store on Tombstone Canyon where the
Laundromat is and buying frozen Zero candy bars in the middle of the summer.

Marching in BHS pep rallies from the PDMerc. parking lot
with the band, cheerleaders, pompons teachers, students andhalf the town, up to upper
court(City Pool), to have a bonfire and burn the B for homecoming.

Buying barbeque chips at McClains grocery on Main St. every
morning on the way to Horace Mann. Having recess at upper court because Horace Mann did
not any flat space big enough for recess.

You remember running errands to PD Store for a quarter for
"Ruby" whom it was rumored used to live in a certain section of Brewery Gulch
that was not exactly residential.

Fourth of July in Bisbee when half of the western world
came to town to celebrate!

You are so proud to have grown up and even have the
privilege of raising your own children in this awesome town.

Lynn and Albert Garcia

10. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

-you ride wild horses from Mr. English.

- play in copper water that is piped into your yard.

- you have a stream of water in the street for several months in Wood Canyon.

- The high school principle Mr. Anthony Nadolski knows your name and everyone else, plus
he was your grade school principle.

- being in the Pep Club on the Bisbee - Douglas game with cow bells and thinking it
was a privilege to be in the Pep Club. Also having the whole school turn out
for the game plus almost the whole town.

- watching the fights after the Bisbee - Douglas football game.

- going to the Lyric on Saturday and trying to win prizes, & watching your
favorite "serial" movie, such as "Buck Rodgers".

Joanne McGinnis (Allen) '63

08. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you can remember the "El Charro Cafe" was in upper Bisbee and
the combination plate was .65 cents.

you can remember going to the drive-in on the $1.00 a car load and the line to get in was
1/2 mile back.

you can remember "Pop Skating Ring" when they would come to town and set-up in
Bakervilles and people would sit in their cars and watch everyone roller skate.

you can remember the long PD strikes.

you can remember going to the dump on the road to Douglas with your Dad and your Dad
coming back with more that you dumped.

you can remember going to the Toot-n-Tellum for Fish -n-Chips.

you can remember work at the Drive-In for .50 cents a hour and thinking you were making
the big bucks.

Joanne McGinnis (Allen) Class of '63

07. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

When you remember
the times when you walked into the PD store, loaded your basket, and gave the check out
clerk you dad's company number instead of money. I was amazed when I found out that
not everyone shopped that way.

When you checked to see what movies were playing at the Lyric. You knew that the
movies changed on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday.

When you remember that
"Citation Alley" was painted along the "new" road around the pit.

When you remember tourists
stopping because they were afraid that ore was going to fall off the conveyor belt
crossing the "new" road around the pit.

When you don't find a slag dump
offensive because it brings back memories of when home was a booming mining town, life was
simple, and we all felt secure knowing our parents left our front doors unlocked 24 hours
a day.

Thank you very much
for all of these wonderful memories.

Charlotte Best
Hayes
Class of 1962

06. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

The big May evening event
was going with the family to Main Street to see
the BHS graduating class portraits on display at Art's Photo Center.

The Lowell business district was a bustling center of commerce that included
Culiver Motor Company, The Arizona Baking Company, Lowell Drug, Lowell
Theater, Brophy Garage, Ortega Shoes, Bisbee Lumber Company (still there,
thank God) and so many others.

The busiest traffic you can remember was anywhere near a business district
on Payday (always spelled with a capital P) and finding a parking spot in
Uptown on Payday was the hardest part of the day.

If you worked for The Company, you could buy anything at any PD store and
simply sign for it. ( Some miners were so in debt to the Company store that
all they got on Payday was a pay stub).

The Boy Scout troop for Bisbee was "Troop 1" and they owned their own
building.

Cruising the Vista was absolutely required before you could go home for the
night.

The big summer event (other than the Fourth of July) was the rock concert at
the National Guard Armory.

The speed limit down the main drag is 25 mph and no one is going that fast.

When you heard the blast go off, you knew you had only 5 more minutes until
sixth period was over and school was out for the day.

You still think that Warren is where the "snobs" live and Old Bisbee is
where the "canyon rats" live.

Diving into the Elks or Country Club pools in early June was the highest
order of bravery (boy was that water cold)!

You still think the Merchant's Fair was the most fun fair you've ever been
to.

KSUN radio (1230 on your AM dial) was the only station you could pick up,
but you always felt sad when it went off the air at 10:00 pm, and getting
the evening DJ job meant instant fame at high school.

Paul Blunt (' 71)

63. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM
BISBEE WHEN.....

You are honking in every tunnel in Los
Angeles to this very day.

You are thinking of the soap box races on the Fourth of July and the M-80's
they would throw off of Castle Rock.

From Paula - Proud Granddaughter of
Delfino and Bertha Moreno.

I Love You Nana and Tata! I Miss You both very much - Rest In Peace

Ol' Timers:

64. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You remember weekend skate nights at the old Bisbee High Gym..wooden
floors
and all, and hitting the "dip" around the curve!

Margie Wrye BHS '80

59. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

THE LITTLE CAFE ON MAIN STREET CALLED "Johnney Wards"
the hot dogs were .05 cents and the hamburgers were .10 cents a good lunch was only
25 cents and that sometimes was hard to get. It was a treat to go there for
lunch from Horace Mann Jr High.

Mario Lopez class of 44 and Adela Madrid class of 50.

60. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You
can tell I am from Bisbee when you remember the High Lonesome where many prom
dates ended up.

When Max Spillsbury kicked half of the
basketball team for partying at Naco at the Monterey to often.

Where after being gone forty-two years I still
call Bisbe home.

Ed Duchene

52. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You remember going to the A & W before heading to the drive-in

You remember watering your yard with PD water

The Hill climb for cars racing to the top of the tunnel

Ben Franklin's

Playing around the copper water

The 4th of July fireworks setting the hill on fire above the terraces every year

Robb Watkins

49. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

In the summer we'd play in the ditch and go
exploring. Going through the drainage tunnels feeding the ditch.
The smell of the weed (?we called it cancer plant) that grew wild across from the Circle
K.
The pride you had then and now of being from Bisbee and the Pumas.
Going shopping at Woolworth's and the unique smell within the store.
After school, from Lincoln Elementary, going to buy candy at Moore's. Seeing Mr.
Moore cutting meat and Mrs. Moore working diligently.
The many impressions these working community folks had on my life and my
memories.
Even after being gone 35 years you still feel fortunate that part of your
childhood was growing up in Bisbee.

M FLORES

48. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you can remember the horseshoe games between
the GLORY HOLE and the ST ELMO on sunday afternoons......ANDDDD, if you can remember when
there was a dog or a child beside every barstool at the ST ELMO...ANDDDDDDD if you knew
"spot" the 3 legged dog....or "Ruff", king of the gulch, or
"OSO" who stole a loaf of bread from the circle K then marked his spot" on
the curb on the way home............Bisbee is the ONLY place I ever lived where everyone
knows everyone elses dogs name...and watches out for them too.

YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.you remember going over
to the Dirty Brothers store in Warren to get your dogfood cheaper.......or if you can
still remember Wolf O'Meara standing in front of the post office declaring "why hire
a lawyer when you can buy a judge?"...or if you ever rented an artist studio for $10
in the old Woolworth Building...or if you had a few drinks at THE GLORY HOLE BAR in the
gulch while a horseshoe game was going on in the vacant lot next door...

You and your friend live in Bakerville. You are 12 and 13, for
enjoyment you meet half ways and sit in the middle of the street going up to American Ave.
You talk from 7:00pm til Midnight when your parents are screaming at you to get home. You
know the whole neighborhood heard. And now we may be older but our parents still live in
the same house and we can still visit our parents and then meet each other half ways.

S. Jimenez

36. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You can tell your from bisbee when you
can remember the good times at the hitching post,and the wonder bar.

29. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN....

You mention a Lowell teacher named
Bendixon (sp) or a Horace Mann teacher named (Grey) and others remember.

You sneaked in to play football on the circle in
front of the ice house across from Lowell School. It was the only patch of green grass in
can remember in Lowell.

You could hand walk across the gulch on a gas
line that followed a foot bridge in front of your house. I think the location was called
Brophey's Hill. My playmates were the Fishers (Chuck, Joey, and Danny), Brian Phillips,
and Reuben Benevediz.

You could sneak off and play in the old Finish
theater when yoou lived in Johnson's addition.

You were allowed to walk around the old
Sacramento Pit on the way to Horace Mann when you lived in Jiggerville.

You made drivers angry when you and your buddies
(Sammy Barrow for one) would slide down the snow beside the High School until the pavement
was clear, polished ice and impossible to drive up. During this time, I lived 2 doors up
from the High School, so I was in the gym every time the doors were open.

I wasn't really a native of Bisbee but lived
there several times. I attended school in Lowell and Horace Mann and attended part of my
Freshman year but was unable to participate in sports because my parents were not with me
( lived with my sister, Helen Hardt). I also spent the summer before my senior there.
During that time my cousin, Dohn Sims and I batched it and I worked at the grocery in
Bakersville while he strung cable for tv.

26. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN....

When you remember walking to Lincoln School and stopping at
Moore's Grocery for candy. What a neat place that was!!!

When you spent the summer looking forward to the 4th of July and the Coaster races.
And of the course the parade which we thought was the greatest in the world.

When your parents would send you up to the Artic Circle to get five
fantastic hamburgers for a buck.

When all of these years later you still talk about the influence Mrs. Medigovich had on
your college career and your life.

1. You tried to hit the TV window of the McNulty house from home plate of
their ballfield.

2. Your sister was sent home for wearing gauchos.

3. The highlight of the week was either your boyfriend getting angry at you at the Pizza
House or drinking enough California Coolers to drive THROUGH the Vista Park.

3.Everywhere you go someone knows someone from Bisbee.

4. Monkey Hill

5. Plaza Liquor-Heaven help us.

6.Rollerskating at the old high school.

7. The Backroads and therefore Benny Scott

8, The Grub Box instead of Calculus (and Olander knew about it),

9. Using a lighter on your black eye liner.

10. Remembering not to take your spouse (unless they are from Bisbee) to a reunion because
they just don't get it. I'm single now.

Amy Buller

53. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

>you fell into one of 4 main categories at High
School:The Nerds, The Jocks, The Heads
(Freaks), or the Cowboys.And though these
divisions were there, we all got along just fine.

> You
had art class with the ever cool Mr. Turner.

> To
this day, you are totally amazed that there weren't more of us maimed or killed in DUI
accidents.

> Parties
usually happened on weekends, starting at night fall at the Vista Park for the beer
collection, and usually ended up at either:the
divide, the river, the rifle range, Fernando's Hide Away
(the hard core party spot), and if we really got lucky, the Mitchell's house!

> You
went to the drive in movie theater towards Naco... One guy drove in and paid, as 3 or more
of us would be hidden in the trunk.And heck
with the movie, it was party time, but just hope you weren't standing on an ant hole.

> BHS
was THE track team to beat in the state!

> The
Forth of July was THE biggest party day of all.Not
even the cops seemed to mind us partaking of our indulgences at the Vista Park.

> And
for us select few"dumpers", we were the
only source for the worlds finest turquoise, Bisbee Blue, until the Matthew's clan bought
the rights from PD in '72.It was nice going to school with big pockets full
of money!Wish I kept more of the rock
though.

> Walking
down the sidewalks of upper Bisbee, and seeing the initials MG on every new slab of cement
there was.Wonder who that was?

> And
on a sadder note... your heart got totally broken upon the tragic early death of Luke
Davey.The road going around the pit turned,
and he and his motorcycle didn't.Such a
loss.

You live on Young Blood Hill and your best buddy convinces you to ride
your bike down your hill, even though your brakes don't work quite so well. That
rock wall on the other side hurt a lot.

Jesse Miller

33. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you know just how many times Angelika's toilet has blown up from line
pressure.

A note from OFF The WALL in BISBEE, This situation occurs
because most of the sewer lines in Tombstone Canyon are daisy chained together and there
is no even slope to the lines; as a consequence, blockage down line will produce head and
back up the line when a toilet is flushed, a dish washed, or a bath taken..

24. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You remember driving that long, steep hill up Moon Canyon to drop of your
girlfriend, the car almost gets stuck on the edge of the "sheer cliff" driveway,
you get in trouble for getting home late......and you wish you could do it all over again!

you aren't afraid of walking up the gulch alone in the dark.....
also when someone is speaking about wildlife preservation, you wonder if St. Elmo's is
closing down..and where will all the wildlife go????

G. mulloy

14. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You remember Mr. Frosco's first year of
teaching.

You were treated like an adult at the age if 15 in
Naco and Agua Prieta and had your very own waiter.

You couldn't wait to turn 19 and be allowed into the
Waiting Room.

Every party was in the boondocks.

You didn't have a key to your own house because
you never locked it. Ever.

You look back and thank God you were raised in such
a crime free town.

submitted by Vicki Atkinson-Cameron, class
of 1974

email: Bizbgirl@msn.com

15. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You know your from Bisbee when going
across the line meant going to Naco or Agua Prieta to party.

When the Drillers where a bunch of guys in high
school and not in the mines.

When cruising started at the top of Tombstone
Canyon and lasted until you couldn't coast any more.

Remembering Miss Power in 2nd grade at
Central School. She also lived across the street next to the convent.

Going to church every Sunday at Sarced Heart
Church until it closed.

Swimming at the Ymca.

Ringing the school bell at Central School.
That was fun. Thinking that we had the biggest school yard.

Being the last class at Hoarce Mann
School. Remember when Mr. Quill swatting, paddle, when we were bad.

The principal name Mr. Detwiller. Getting into
troubleon upper court by throwing rocks below to a man walking and turning out he
was a judge pacing back and forth. 3 of us were at the wrong place at the right
time.

Going to the lyric theater every saturday was a
big event. Unitl I started to drive.

Then it was the rifle range and the park.

Climbing the B and the Cross without premission.

Pit blast at 3:00pm. sharp. Watching the
the mining trucks going down to the bottom of the pit.

I remember the P.D. strike. Lots of
families were suffering.

Dad and Mom still live in Bisbee and now when I
go visit I'm a tourist in my home

12. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

1. Your car gets bombarded by water ballons on the last day at
school while you're circling the Vista.

2. When the track team shows up at another away meet and you hear everyone around say,
"Bisbee's here again, we got no chance of winning this one!"

3. You meet some idiot coming down OK street while you are going up it.

4. You have to deliver furniture to someone at #113 Laundry Hill and the only way there is
a mule trail.

5. Or you have to deliver groceries to someone who lives at the top of Spring Canyon and
you can't park any closer than 500 feet from the house.

6. You can hear all the Ciacada's chiming in together during the spring.

Tom Murray class of 73

11. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

1. The bus barn in Warren on Hazzard St...... and
your
Grandma lived next door to it!

2. When you and lots of others took sewing lessons from
Mrs. Clark at her home on Mill Road.

3. While in H.S. you & your girlfriends learned to knit
from Peg Hicks and Mrs. McKinley (Dr. McKinley's mother) at
their yarn shop next to the Warren P.O.---- and all of us
knitted sweaters or socks for our boyfriends that
Christmas! In abt. 1963!

4. You remember going to the Winter Wonderland dances at
the armory! The smell of the wrist coursages! And the
above the elbow white gloves that you got at the PD Store in
the upstairs ladies dept..!

5. The old C & A hospital where your parents were born in
1929..... but which
is now ----- and always has been in your memory.....the
Hillcrest Apts.

6. Going to the Dairy Queen for "Jack and Jill's"!!! Still
the best DQ in the state!!!

7. While attending Lowell grade school.......Payday
Fridays getting to walk to the Lowell Drug with your
girlfriends for lunch! We would sit at the counter and have
tuna or egg salad on toast ---with a Vanilla or Cherry Coke
and chips ----and still have money left over from the $1.00
bill to get a candy lipstick at Sprouse Ritz 5 & 10 cent
store.......or a cream puff from the bakery!!
Again....the BEST BAKERY IN THE WORLD!!!!
None anywhere ever could compare!

10. Stopping at Ryan's or Upchurch's gas stations and
filling up for $1 ---- and each of us putting in a quarter
or less depending on the car load! Then driving down to
the Vista looking for boys.......and up to Bisbee over the
Divide and down again!!!!! That was our summer
entertainment!

11. The smell of the freshly oiled, shiney, hall floors at
Lowell School - and the nicest custodian....Pop McGary
(sp?) who would entertain us with his spoons and the
wooden dancing man on the stick!!

12. Watching the World Series in the Lowell School
Auditorium with our favorite teachers - Bill Taylor and
Carroll Mosley!!!

13. Going to Bingo on Monday nights at the Serbian Hall!
Other nights at the Elks, etc. with my Grandma!

14. The fun that was had by all at the Elk's picnics
.....BEFORE the Elk's park was built. They were out in the
Huachuca's someplace! Sack races, egg tosses, etc!

15. School night meetings.......C.Y.O. for some and Rainbow
Girls for others!!!
But the fun was afterwards!

16. Keller Hogan's market in Bakerville .......buying
groceries, along with beer and cigarettes..... for my
parents when I was barely old enough to drive!!!.......and
signing the tab for it! No questions asked!!!!

17. Never having a key to your house in Briggs and never
feeling afraid! Having your bedroom painted a special
lavender by the P.D. painter, Adolph.....who took his
"beverage breaks" at your house even when it wasen't the
house he was painting!!! He knew he was always welcome to
raid your refrigerator!!!!

18. Having one of your dad's friends give you and your
girlfriend a ride home after midnight....bec. he saw us
walking alone!!!! And you never thought a thing of
it....getting in a truck with a stranger because he said he
knew your dad.....Bennie Hamrick!!

19. Spending most of your childhood at the Little League
Ballpark.....where your dad was the coach and you got to
work in the snack bar making snow cones!!! And your
grandpa - Print Hamrick, would buy the winning and losing
teams snowcones after the games!!!

20. When the Bisbee Babe Ruth team won the State
Championship in 1967 and your dad was the coach and your
brother was the first baseman.......and the players sold
autographed baseballs for $5 each to pay for the team's
trip to the Babe Ruth World Series in El Segundo,
Calif.......and everyone in Bisbee bought at least one
ball!!!!! Unfortunately they lost the first game to
Hawaii.........but it was still a thrill for all involved!

21. Going fishing and camping out for the first time at
Rucker!

22. Stories of when your dad worked at the laundry at Fort
Huachuca when he was just a kid going into high
school......and the Fort was all black soldiers at that
time. And when he worked at the Ice Plant and delivered ice
up the gulch and carried #50 blocks of ice up the hundreds
of steps....to the houses who left a sign in their window
for how much ice to leave in their icebox .....doors were
unlocked and he would put the ice in the icebox, tear a
coupon for the ice out of their pmt book and leave before
they woke up! He also delivered to "Ruby's place" at the
end of the gulch and other sorts of places like hers just
outside the gates at Fort Huachuca!!! Then later recalling
him working 27 days on and 2 off in the mines.....and never
complaining!

23. The BHS Cuprite Follies every year ! Esp. the year
Larry Mattingly, Norm Cox, Royce Puckett, Greg Yuncevich,
Gary Morgan, and Mike Ryan.....WERE "The
Beatles"........1964! They brought the house down with their
rendition of the real Beatles, newly released
records...."She Loves Me" and "I Want to Hold Your
Hand"....... What a night that was!! Screaming girls in
the auditorium just like on the Ed Sullivan TV show!

24. You, and many of your girlfriends, met your future
husbands while working at Fort Huachuca or going dancing at
the Military Inn!!!!

25. When The Bisbee Lunch had the best hamburgers and the
most delicious cream pies made by Erma Mattingly!

I remember moving to Bisbee in 72.
My husband had been an architecture major
at the U of A. I was trying to complete a degree in art & art education. Tom
bought a house in Bisbee for about $2,000 & at that time, we found out later
we had been "taken". Houses around us were going for $500 in back taxes.
Tom
was an electrician at Black Cloud Electric. We lived at the top of Moon
Canyon Drive & we got married on the hill behind our house. Yes, we were some
of the first "hippies" to move to Bisbee. I've got a great picture of all of
us on that hill & when I have time maybe I'll send it to the newspaper.

What I remember about Bisbee was......one night our yellow bug light went out
& we found a soft pink bulb to replace it. The next day a middle aged
neighbor man came over & gave us a whole hand full of different colored
bulbs. He said we could really get our neighbors going, especially they were
so curious about us young folks moving in. I got the biggest kick out of it!

Sueronfunnyfarm@aol.com

03. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

For the Catholic kids, who went to St. Pats, who
can forget Sister Cecilia Loretto, and her ubiquitous clicker to bring her charges to
heel, and the way she would point when angry with her index and middle fingers together
and he ring and little fingers together. That was so neat, we all tried to mimic
her.

She was born in Bisbee around the turn of the century, and
her mom still lived in Warren in the late 50's. She actually attended St. Pats when
she was growing up. When we had Civil Defense Drills, to protect ourselves from a Russian
nuclear attack, she would afterwards regale us with stories of how, when she was a student
there, they would have to go hide in the basement when Poncho Villa's marauders were
spotted near town.

Also when Sister Crispina would come by and twist your
ear if you forgot your multiplication assignment in 3rd grade. And the dreaded
Sister Catherine Michelle, who single-handedly filled the office of the only child
psychologist in the county (in Douglas).

These were the days when there was universal agreement
that Bisbee was on the 'Top 10 List' of cities the Russians intended to nuke when they
attacked the US (because of the copper mines, of course).

And you must be from Bisbee when you can remember eating
tacos at the OLD El Charro Restuarant, before they tore it down to enlarge the Pit.

When you knew that
Guy and Flash were the bartenders (Zookeepers) on Ftiday and Saturday nights at Emo's.

Flash

Can't deside(every picture tells a story)

54. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you went to school at Lincoln, and had Mrs Ragsdale for a teacher, and
every Mothers Day she would take her students to pick flowers from her garden for our
mothers,
and when you were chosen to be a crossing gaurd,
also when you would go to catacism at your teachers home,
those are special memories

Azuriteskky

51. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

...you are male and you lost your virginity across the border?
...you're female and you lost your virginity at the Drive In?

Or...you just don't remember where you lost it, only that it's gone.

John Vaughn

18. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

You can tell your from South Bisbee when the teachers were Mrs. Davies
(primary) 1st. Grade Little Miss Regan, 2nd Grade Big Miss Regan 3rd. Grade Mrs. Bergman,
4th. Grade Mr. Smith 5th. Grade Mrs. Polick, 6th Grade Miss Emigine Brooks, 7th. Grade ??,
8th Grade Miss Molly Bendexion, at Lowell School.
I also have some class pictures from the 1st thru 8th. 1945-1953
Those of you who remember POP McGary, also Mr. Herman T Price, be thankful We lived in and
was schooled in the best environment possible.

Max Mikels

P.S. Don't forget the rock fights with Tin Town before the dump was there.
Then in the 50's someone wanted to change the name to Shamrock Village.

On the route delivering ice with Jack Lazovich. see the window tag for 50#
at Slag Dump Hill, when you carry it up 9,999 steps, you are told they forgot to take the
sign down,

55. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you remember Doc.V. making house calls in his hearse.

you
remember Joni Giacomino was the first girl to play babe ruth

and she
kicked butt too....

Darvi Verhelst

56. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

you remember the skating nights they
use to have at St. Pat's. Those days in Bisbee were truly the best!

Anita Lawson Evans

30. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

the minerals and chemicals fom the water have interfered with the firing
of your synapse to the point where you start putting up retarded websites.

when you're kids are on every drug known to man and they don't have to pay
for 'em

when the cops have a couple million a year to blow on bulletproof vests
and night vision goggles but there is no youth center or movie theater....

elvis spacey

17. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

Going to the shopping in the big city meant driving to Sierra Vista or
Douglas.

Being able to watch the ball games in the Warren Ball Park from your front porch.

Falling in the copper ditch.

You used to pick up fist-size chunks of malachite, azurite and turquoise off the railroad
tracks and throw them at the train (Cha Ching!)

You remember Dr. Czuppa's World Record eyebrows (Principal of BHS in mid '70's)

You learned to drive in Tombstone Canyon, Brewery Gulch and Youngblood Hill.

You swore you would NEVER work in a mine.

17'. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

Happy Harry's Mortuary (Harry Mitchell's Hubbard Mortuary)

Your yearbook photo by Ernie Beyer (the guy that did crime scene and accident photography
for the cops)

Saint Elmo's

Country hicks lived in Double Adobe or Palominas

the baby in the jar in Mr. Killian's room at the Lowell School

4th of July meant Bisbee was the center of the Universe

"george"

16. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

I am reminded every time I visit of the time I should have lowered
the bed of the dump truck. I dumped the load behind Lowell School and pulled out
from under it. I then drove across the street to go back to the pit for another
load. I forgot to lower the bed of the truck and needless to say 12 telephone poles
were never the same again. The bosses informed me they didn't like the poles snapped in
half. This little absence of mind ended my career with Phelps Dodge. My brother Fred
informed me after I left, he was asked several times if he was the Wright that pulled the
telephone poles down. He always informed them he didn't know what they were talking
about. Do you think he might have been ashamed of me? Ha I still have
the fondness memories and enjoy all the comments as I can relate to them all.

your shopping for a new girlfriend and the measure of the hair under her arms has to reach
a certain length.....

your teeth(or Tooth) has copper fillings and you have "Bisbee Blue" streaks in
your underwear.

You drive 35 miles to buy underwear

05. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

WHEN YOU KNOW THEY
BLACKTOPPED THE STREET IN FRONT OF SACRED HEART CHURCH AND OK STREET THE DAY
WE GOT MARRIED BY FATHER MACHAIN ON 6/ 1 /57 (STILL MARRIED ) BUT MISS BISBEE

04. YOU CAN TELL YOU'RE FROM BISBEE WHEN.....

I get a tear in my eye and a
lump in my throat reading all the comments you put on this web. page....THANKS FOR DOING
IT.

...I remember my first coach in Bisbee, Angel Salas,
Sr.....what a great guy! He used to tell us he got so brown because of the sun.....

...I remember the organized grade school touch football
games on Sat. mornings....Greenway vs Lowell, St. Pat's vs "Horse Man",
etc....then the real games between the same teams on Sunday afternoon...tackle,
unsupervised!!

...the Warren Ball Park was always open on weekends for
pick-up football and baseball games on weekends....why is it locked now? Bill Taylor, you
need to do something about that!!

...I remember Coach Fuzzy Warren yelling at the Douglas
fans, "Which one was Dawson?", after BHS had upset the previously unbeaten
Bulldogs and their great Gib Dawson in the 1948 Turkey Day Game in Douglas!

...I remember carving my initials in the adobe bricks in
the Warren Ball Park as a kid, and then years later bringing my 3 children to the park and
finding some of the "HH"s were still there.

...I remember telling my 3 children that I posed for
"iron man statue" by St. Pat's and not telling them any different until they
were old enough to figure out that their dad lied.

...I remember "Rock" Miller, at one of our
class reunions, listing the Presidents of The United States in order....backwards!

...does any one
know where Jim "Lefty" Weld is?

...and, finally, I remember my wife going into a Frozen
Yogurt shop in South Caroling in 1985 and finding out that the parents of the young girl
who waited on her were from Bisbee....and my wife forgot the name!!! My wife, obviously,
is not from Bisbee!!

Just finished reading the
"You Know" column. It was great. Unfortunately, I had to go to the
last 'history lesson' to find someone I knew, Hadley Hicks. Of course, he was
several years younger. I might add, that Hadley was on of Bisbee High School's
greatest athletes. He was a running back who ran like the wind and wiggled like a
snake. I did not get to see him play but one game when I came home on leave from the
Marine Corps.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when you participated in snow ball fights (rock inside)
against the superior force from Horse Mann. We would climb to Higgins mine and made
our stand there. There were more of them then us and we were ultimately slaughtered.
Oh yes, fistacuffs including the gals.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when we played two games against Douglas, Armistice and
Thanksgiving.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when you played for BHS in a game that Douglas won 54-0.
Ouch. We, BHS, officially won the game because Douglas had WWII vets playing
on the team. Score 2-0. The Bisbee crowd (game was in Douglas) got tired of
standing for the kickoffs.

You can tell you are from Bisbee, when the following year, they beat us 6-0 and we
won the 'copper pic' on Thanksgiving. (1947)

You can tell you are from Bisbee when every Saturday in the morning, you could find the
game of the season being played with one neighborhood against the other in Bisbee, Lowell
or Warren. Of course, there were always fights but come what may, just before noon,
everrything stopped. We went home for lunch, picked up our nickels and went to the
Lyric.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when you went to Economy's little candy store next to the
Lyric to buy candy. A Hershey which cost a dollar now went for 5 cents.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when if you lived up Brewery Gulch and Zacatecas, you
cleaned all your trash and dumped in on the 'river' going down the gulch during heavy
rains.

You can tell you are from Bisbee when the 'river' picked up and carried Mr. Clarks 16
wheelers as if though they were rafts.

There are hundreds of incidents which would let people know that I am from Bisbee but I
believe that you knew you were from Bisbee when people would help people when in need.
When people would pick up the children and take them home til a new home was found
when those children's mother died. When people would gather and pay for funerals of
the poor. When merchants would donate clothing and food to poor families. This is
what Bisbee was and I pray that it still is.

The people of Bisbee I knew and I will meet again, hopefully 'up there'.We will light a
bonfire at Horse Mann field then play Douglas the next day.

you would go to the reservoir up on Locklin Ave and fish for
Blue Gill with a line, hook and bubble gum that you bought from the Canyon Store.

you would play
basket ball at the Garfield on the green wooden backboard and twist your ankle when you
made a lay-up.

you would swat
dragon flies and play with the sand lions in the ditch.Can you tell I was Canyon Rat.

you would go to
the Artic Circle and get a Jumbo Chili Cheese and BBQ chips with a Strawberry Shake.

call Mr. Frosco
Garvin, and now my son is one of Garvin's boys.

I grew up in
Bisbee and still live in Bisbee. I have been offered more money to work in other
places.I have gone and come back, I missed the town I always tried to run away from. When
I came back through the tunnel and felt the cool breeze I knew I was back home.I think
this is the best place in the world for me my wife and kids.